Staurotheca glomulosa Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997

Staurotheca glomulosa Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

(Fig. 9e)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-70, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 75 mm high; 48- 150, mass of stems, c. 60 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; 48-189, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-220, mass of stems, c. 65 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; ANT XVII/3: 111- 19, two colonies, c. 30 and 60 mm high, with male and female gonothecae respectively; ANT XXI/2: PS65/39, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/245, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/253, some stems, up to 20 mm high; PS65/274, one colony, c. 18 mm high, on bryozoan; PS65/276, few stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 1157 (Peña Cantero 2014a); present material from 112 to 758 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).